Mar 4 2009Woman Calls 911 Over McNugget Emergency
NOTE: Video consists of the calls to 911.
Not once. Not twice. But three times did Latreasa Goodman call 911 about the lack of McNuggets at her local McDonald's and the manager's unwillingness to give her a refund.
When cops responded to the restaurant, Goodman told them, "This is an emergency. If I would have known they didn't have McNuggets, I wouldn't have given my money, and now she wants to give me a McDouble, but I don't want one." Goodman noted, "I called 911 because I couldn't get a refund, and I wanted my McNuggets," according to the below Fort Pierce Police Department report. That logic, however, did not keep cops from citing Goodman for misusing the 911 system. Even after being issued a misdemeanor citation, Goodman contended, "this is an emergency, my McNuggets are an emergency."
I'm with you, Latreasa -- McNuggets ARE an emergency. I've nearly killed cashiers for less. Like that time they told me the McFlurry machine was broken -- I was over the counter and had dude's hand in a deep fryer before you could say Value Meal.
A McNuggets "Emergency" [thesmokinggun]
Thanks to Jason and Tank, who have both called 911 because they didn't get the toys they wanted their Happy Meals.
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Reader Comments
1. Kate - March 4, 2009 3:33 PM
Haha, what a gimp.
2. Kate - March 4, 2009 3:34 PM
I'm not gonna say it... this is the new trend. Suck it.
3. bendizle - March 4, 2009 3:37 PM
ultra FAIL beeeeeeotch......."she say she are da manager"
4. Davo - March 4, 2009 3:39 PM
Meanwhile, across town, rescue workers were unable to save the victims of a house fire because they arrived too late, apparently because the 911 system was too busy to respond in time due to other calls coming in at the same time...
...America FTW!!....................(sarcasm implied)
5. BOOSH! - March 4, 2009 3:42 PM
They should chain this woman to the steps of the court house and let passers by pelt her with McNuggets until she starts to bleed.
6. gizmoduck - March 4, 2009 3:42 PM
way ta go mcdonalds.
pissing off the public again.
7. PIZZAULFARIZZAL - March 4, 2009 3:48 PM
(not) FIRST
8. Elboroto - March 4, 2009 3:51 PM
Holy Crap, no nuggets!
DEFCON 6!!!
9. chris "sanchez" - March 4, 2009 3:52 PM
so, i think someone should duct tape this lady to a giant mcnugget and be thrown out to sea, yep that's what we should do,
10. I say: "Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptang Zoo Boing" - March 4, 2009 3:53 PM
O
M
G
11. jumpin_j - March 4, 2009 3:53 PM
That's rediculous. Calling 911 when a house can be on fire or someone's having a heart attack depriving public funds and and energy of friggin McNuggets is epic fail.
Now if they ran out of bacon, that's a damn emergency!!!
12. jumpin_j - March 4, 2009 3:55 PM
And to #10, NIH!!! There, I said it. OW! I said IT again. AH!
13. Amaranth - March 4, 2009 3:57 PM
they always never failed to surprise me
14. Still White on the Outside - March 4, 2009 4:02 PM
"craka' you bess be givin me ma dayum nuggets!" "don' make me com up in dere an' pistol whoop yo' ass"
She should have called chris brown. He might have gotten her some nuggets.
P.S.
She voted for Obama
15. Lucy - March 4, 2009 4:08 PM
Is this real? Is there actually someone this stupid in the world? I'm surprised she recalled what the number was for 911!
16. nowai - March 4, 2009 4:12 PM
i don't know how many of you folks actually listened to the audio, but it seems like it's the McDonalds that should be attacked here and not her. calling 911 three times, or even once might have been excessive (optimally she should have looked up the local police number rather than calling an emergency number), but what the McDonalds was doing was stealing (taking money for something, not providing the thing paid for, and not returning the money when requested to).
17. Steve - March 4, 2009 4:19 PM
Makes me think of the 'McDonalds Dollar Menu Millionaire' video. Ahhhh, memories :)
18. Nice Pete - March 4, 2009 4:34 PM
Nowai-
I agree. It's still not exactly a 911 case but she was calling because they were literally trying to steal her money. It may have been a relatively small amount but it's still a crime and I don't understand why McDonald's isn't receiving more criticism for this. She didn't call 911 cause they were out of mcnuggets, she called 911 cause she was being robbed.
19. J'Adore Tambien - March 4, 2009 4:38 PM
Worst case senario; pink dolphin attack in McDonalds.
What more can you possibly get out of a 911 call concerning your lack of sensibility to count the amount of chicken meat in your meal?
It is clearly not stupidity that is going through this woman's head when she made that phone call. Rather, a poor grasp of the fact that an African-American president is not in the position of "having her back" whenever she gets herself into "some deep sh!t."
Y'knah mean?
20. ProteinMonster - March 4, 2009 4:45 PM
Wow.... really, really dumb broad for tying up the emergency lines.
I don't see why Mcdonalds couldn't give the lady her money back, though.
21. CoinOperatedBoi - March 4, 2009 4:53 PM
This kind of incident isn't exactly new. There was another call roaming around the interwebz where a lady in the drive-through was calling because they made her burger wrong or something along those lines. The 911 respondent ended up cracking on her about using them for something that wasn't an emergency it was great.
22. DrNecropolis - March 4, 2009 4:59 PM
Just like the movie Falling Down, I wonder if she beat up any thugs with baseball bats prior to hitting up Mickey D's How much for this pack of gum?
23. wazmeister - March 4, 2009 5:00 PM
She wouldn't have had this problem if she went to burger king
24. Vtx - March 4, 2009 5:05 PM
Bahahaha! This is better than that idiot psycho soccer mom's call whining about Burger King.
25. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - March 4, 2009 5:08 PM
This is stupid to the power of ghetto.
26. Moviekid - March 4, 2009 5:09 PM
The lady just didn't call the right number. I feel bad for her. Sorry to say it...but she was probably poor and gave up the little money she had for FOOD and got NOTHING in return. When they refused to give back the money she did not take a bat/gun to them or threaten to kill them...she called a mediator. If she would have "acted a fool," then she would have been wrong (even though thats what she should have done, people respond better to aggression).
27. Amaranth - March 4, 2009 5:23 PM
@26 if you are poor you wouldn't be eatting at fast food joints since the meal itself more then $5 with tax... she is just plain retarded simple as that.
28. Vtx - March 4, 2009 5:24 PM
If she was poor, then she needs to get her butt to the grocery store, so she can spend her chicken mcnugget money on a lot more food! Cans of tuna are, like, 50 damn cents! This is what happens with these lazy, ghetto people. They blow off all of their money on Cici's and McDonalds and complain about not having any money to feed their family. You can get a crapload of food from the grocery store for the price of a value meal.
29. Moviekid - March 4, 2009 5:35 PM
Either if I pay for something and I don't get anything in return I'd be pissed. Me- I'll have the steak. (Hands over $40)
Waiter - "Thanks!! By the way order something else or leave...we don't have no more steaks"
No matter how you put it what's right is right...
30. Tennist0 - March 4, 2009 5:39 PM
after the incident- "911!!!!! my chicken nuggets roxed!!!!!"
31. Cade - March 4, 2009 5:58 PM
Just throwing it out there: the way the home market is, homelessness is becoming a real epidemic. If she had a little cash for some nuggets she could have bought some groceries. However, if she didn't have a stove to cook it on, then that's a bigger problem. She might have been using the store phone to call as well. I've been cheated before at fast food, but when my rage comes out, the bastards will deep fry their fist and serve it on a platter for me. And they'd give me a coupon for a free cheeseburger. That's all I'm sayin.
But using 911 was a little extreme. They should make police office numbers more available. I mean, I don't know the number to my local authorities. Oh well.
32. thing - March 4, 2009 6:36 PM
the crazy thing is, the operators actually took her seriously, i mean wtf...
33. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - March 4, 2009 7:42 PM
Where was the guy who assaulted his girlfriend with the McDouble when you need him? EAT FRESH BITCH!
*McDonald's should've refunded the money, but this chick is McTarded.*
34. t-bone - March 4, 2009 7:51 PM
You know he 911 operators are just laughing in the background.
35. Kup - March 4, 2009 8:21 PM
@33, love the "McTarded' comment. I will steal that and use it daily in my epitaphs to the masses.
36. Milkman - March 4, 2009 8:43 PM
Lol what kind of ghetto McDonalds refuses to refund money
37. Tom - March 4, 2009 8:59 PM
0_o; its not about the nuggets, its about McDonald's stealing her money, maybe this woman payed with like a $20 or somethin', I would have totally done the same thing if someone were to steal my money. although calling 3 times is pretty bad, but if the first dispatcher had just sent an officer out, and got it all over with, then she wouldn't have kept calling.... I say all three sides are retarded!
38. Watch - March 4, 2009 9:19 PM
I don't think it's relevant to criticize her judgment from a financial point of view. There is a reason why there is a higher concentration of McDonalds restaurants in the poorest parts of the United States. McDonalds is considered an inexpensive luxury to those who cannot afford otherwise. Anyone remember Super Size Me?
Besides, I'd get cranky too if I was hungry and some prepubescent snot with a glorified titile at mcdonalds wouldn't give me my damn food. Gawd.
39. timmy the dying boy - March 4, 2009 9:33 PM
Latreasa?
40. s - March 4, 2009 9:33 PM
hahah only in america are people so dumb...she will probably end up sueing them ...and win!
41. amanda - March 4, 2009 9:45 PM
I DONT THINK IT WAS ABOUT THE CHICKEN NUGGETS IT WAS ABOUT THE WORKER NOT GIVING THE CUSTOMER HER MONEY BACK IF THE LADY DIDNT WANT ANYTHING SHE SHOULD GET HER MONEY BACK.DO YOU THINK THAT SHE SHOULD HAVE JUST SAID "OH OKAY NO NUGGETS, LET ME GO" AND LET THE MCWORKER KEEP HER MONEY?HELL TO THA NO!! SHE SHOULD HAVE GOTTA HER MONEY BACK SHE IS LUCKY CAUSE MCDONALDS WOULD HAVE HAD TO CALL THE POLICE FOR ME CAUSE I WOULD HAVE BEAT THE MCNUGGET OUT OF HER!!!
42. Boost - March 4, 2009 9:48 PM
@40
I've lived in the USA my entire life and NEVER met anybody this retarded.
And I've met a retarded person before.
43. amanda - March 4, 2009 10:00 PM
I DONT THINK IT'S RETARDED THE MCWORKER STOLE HER MCMONEY!!!!!
44. intermission - March 4, 2009 10:49 PM
HAHHAH ,
and then people wonder....why cops hate black people?
#3 hit the nail on the head
45. Daisy (TRO) - March 4, 2009 11:19 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max gets a call from the president asking why the McDOnalds was out of chickn nuggets. Max said they didn't have the money to stock them anymore and the president added a billion to the economic stimulants package for MacDonalds.
46. Babel - March 5, 2009 12:12 AM
AMANDA - take the CAPS LOCK off..looks worse than this clip sounds
intermission - damn! and i guess we all know why black people hate white punks and cops
47. lk - March 5, 2009 12:19 AM
Too many comments are missing the point. Yes, mcnugget may not sound like much money to you. But it's the principle that matters. Now imagine paying 70k for a Porsche. The salesperson takes your money and tells you they are out of Porsche and you can pick from their wide selection of Ford or Honda. You would scream blood hell !! Then you call the police and they give you a misdemeanor because no one is dying out of you losing 70k. WTF!
48. Mickey - March 5, 2009 1:09 AM
Its shit like this that makes me racist.
49. Enflamed - March 5, 2009 1:25 AM
lol, this is great I work at McDonalds. I mean, i eat there quite often.
50. Enflamed - March 5, 2009 1:31 AM
@37 Actually she ordered a 10-piece and small fry which would come to $4.36ish. And more if she asked for extra sauce. that shit is 30 cents a cup SON!
51. CapnJack - March 5, 2009 1:42 AM
@14 I doubt it. She seems too stupid to vote for Obama. At that level of intellect she must be a Republican.
52. Amy - March 5, 2009 2:20 AM
To everyone trying to excuse this psycho because she's poor, think about it...the restaurant was trying to give her a BETTER menu item that usually cost MORE money, and she refused to accept it multiple times. If she were truly poor and starving, she'd have leapt on an opportunity like that.
My point, she's not that poor, you humanitarian saps. She's just remarkably and mind-bafflingly stupid.
53. JJtoob - March 5, 2009 5:16 AM
Give me McChicken Nuggets, or give me death!
54. Defcon WTF - March 5, 2009 5:29 AM
@8
Retard. The higher the defon number the LESS danger of nuclear war. Defcon 1 being missle launch. And it only goes as high as 5.
Besides it's the Whopper that lowers the Defcon.
Didn't anyone see Wargames?
55. deb - March 5, 2009 7:07 AM
Well , this woman is a blazing idiot.
Calling 911, 3X for an order that couldn't be placed.
The restaurant should have given her money back but it amounts to like 2.50 for the nuggets.
Methinks she ate some of the fries as they didn't want to refund her for her order and offered her a sandwich.
Either way she is just an idiot whose use of emergency networks shows the stupidity her mother raised up.
56. Katia - March 5, 2009 8:06 AM
Well I know that chicken is important to her. I would have threw a fit to but i wouldnt have called 911. Now she is out the cost of the nuggets and for the citation.
57. (the authentic one) - March 5, 2009 10:56 AM
see whut hapenz wen we dun elected a black man fo da prezident.
but seriously, I was at Six Flags a couple of weeks ago and a group of 5 black people cut in front of our group while waiting in line for the Simpsons RIde. I said "hey you cant take cuts" and this ugly black chick turns around and says, "Obamas the president, so we run this mutha fucccka now." I was shocked.
58. Vtx - March 5, 2009 11:24 AM
#57 I work at a bank, and I've heard plenty of that crap, too. One day I'm going to yell out, "Bitch, he's half white!"
Anyway, idiot should've gotten a chicken sandwich, tossed the bun, lettuce, tomatoes, etc. and she would've had one giant freakin nugget. Moron.
59. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - March 5, 2009 12:20 PM
@57
Daisy finally speaks without a single word about Never Back Down. You broke out of your retarded slump of monotony. Congrats!
60. Tibbs - March 5, 2009 2:09 PM
As a person who values every penny that he works for, I see the problem here. if I pay for something and don't receive the product I paid for it my right to get my money back...even if I am offered a product of higher value. This is the same logic that I use when I see homeless people who are not disable or old. Why should I give away the money I've worked hard for even if it is a few dollars? Anyone who has a problem with this womens plight I invite you to give a few dollars per paycheck away to the first person who asks for it.
61. OtterMan - March 5, 2009 3:04 PM
Christ, if this call had been over their refusal to serve her KFC and watermelon it would have been the utter win.
"Want some grape drink...it's purple!"
62. KLanD - March 5, 2009 3:48 PM
Damn.. how dumb do you have to be to think chicken nuggets are 911 worthy.
63. Still White on the Outside - March 5, 2009 4:51 PM
@51
Are you serious? You have got to be joking. You dems are delusional but you have got to put down the crack pipe.
You honestly think this woman voted for McCain. Thanks. I'll have a good laugh at that on my drive home.
64. qwerty - March 5, 2009 5:57 PM
@51 - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA yeah im SURRREEE she voted for McCain, LMAO. dumbshit
feeling a little sour over the fact that you voted for an idiot as president?? gosh there has been so much POSITIVE CHANGE since we elected Obama, i just don't know what would happen if we didn't, people might be losing their houses and jobs or something and the economy might be awful!!! good thing obama kept that from happening!!
65. lolly - March 5, 2009 5:59 PM
@47 - thats why you call the non-emergency police number...??
66. lolkidsandpolitics - March 5, 2009 8:36 PM
@64 how stupid are you really? You elect a man to sort through 8 years of muck and bullshit created by the guy before him, he's been in office for what 3 months tops (not even) and you're getting all righteous about not seeing change. He's not a miracle worker, and there is no 1 single way to turn things around on the turn of a dime, get a grip on reality dipshit.
67. coffee - March 5, 2009 10:42 PM
the only thing worse than no chicken nuggets is when they have chicken nuggets... but no BBQ sauce
68. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - March 5, 2009 11:31 PM
66- Pork Spending, Obama's comments about that are almost as much of an Epic Fail as Bush's "Mission Accomplished"... Talk about high and mighty...
69. Prof - March 6, 2009 6:29 AM
Obama has nothing to do with this some black lady wanting her money back anymore then Bush should be held responsible for every jingoistic redneck & bible thumper's idiocy. Both sides need to calm down and breath. An all the internet bigots know someone of their own race that would loose their shit over something like this... and when pressed they would respond, "It's the principle!", and in a way they would be right! $2 or $2000 I would get pissed off too if you took my money then said whoops that shit you ordered isn't here, order something else or eat the cost, because we're keeping your cash... buyer beware bitch! I don't think calling 911 is the smartest course of action, but damn the 911 operator could have just told her in the future please only use this line for dire emergencies & connected her through to the local police, or heaven forbid the McDee's manager could have just said...OK here's your $2 & change back sorry! It's not like she bought hot coffee, spilt it on herself then wanted to sue because the beverage was indeed HOT. Damn she just wanted some tasty chicken nuggets or her two bits & change back.
70. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - March 6, 2009 7:36 AM
#69
Win! But only because you're 69
71. Luke - March 6, 2009 9:07 AM
The fact that people are arguing politics about this is ridiculous.
72. Machaeus - March 7, 2009 10:59 PM
@71: Agreed. -_- I mean, wtf.
On another note, I would not call this person retarded. Ever. Shame on those who have. Shame on all of you for insulting retarded people.
73. lizzeh - March 10, 2009 3:47 AM
This is a ridiculous and utterly frivolous thing to call emergency services for. Yes, technically it was theft but that's why you are supposed to use non-emergent lines for that sort of thing.
Yes, McDonalds should have given her the money back or offered some way to make it right if they really, for some odd reason, couldn't. Offered her a voucher for free nuggets next time plus another to make up for the missing money? Something.
She should have waited until the next day to go back to the store and file a complaint. Or just file a complaint with corporate- I've had to do that a few times with several companies, one of them McDonalds and had the issues resolved very well and then some.
This really isn't a place for politics- it has nothing to do with politics. Its just some idiotic woman who called 911 for some stupid chicken. And race shouldn't matter either- just because she is black means nothing. If I recall correctly, the dumbshit who spilled the coffee on herself was white but no one went around saying, "oh all dem stoopid white ppl alwayz spillin shet on demselves." It makes no more sense to bring her skin colour into the picture on this issue- she was just another dumbshit who called 911 for some chicken nuggets.
74. xvids - September 19, 2009 6:41 AM
politics i hate all the way